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The Big Chill On Radio And Televison
Before the festival...Warm up your ears in readiness for the festival with Pete Lawrence's Radio 6 6Mix show on Sunday 30th July, 8pm - 10pm, and with the archive of Big Chill Radio shows on bigchill.net.
At the festival...
Gilles Peterson presents his Worldwide Radio 1 show live from the Big Chill Radio studios at Eastnor, for the third year running.
Other shows broadcasting live from the festival...
Friday 4th 1900 - 2100 BBC Hereford and Worcester - Dan Johnson and Andrew Marston live on air
Sunday 7th 1200 - 1400 BBC London - Sean Rowley and Kate Allen present ‘Guilty Pleasures’ live
Sunday 1400 - 1600 XFM - The Unabombers pre-record their show for XFM Manchester
Monday 7th and 8th BBC 1xtra- Ace and Invisible present features and interviews during drivetime
After the festival...
Opportunities abound to catch up with The Big Chill over the airwaves.
The first ‘The Garden of Delights’ Pete Lawrence's weekly radio show, is broadcast on Monday 7th August from 8pm-10pm. Chill Radio is available on DAB. You can also find it on Sky Channel 0174 and online at www.helpmechill.com. Wednesday 9th August sees Paul Noble's first edition of his weekly show 'The Deep End', between 10pm and midnight - also on Chill.
Kiss FM will broadcast live recordings from the festival, in a special show on Saturday 13th August.
Pete presents the One World show on Radio 1 between 1am and 3am on Sunday 14th August - playing the pick of the live music from the festival and reliving some of those magic moments.
It's back to the BBC studios for Pete on August 28th, when he presents a two hour radio show from midnight to 2am on Radio 2. The show forms part of Radio 2's August Bank Holiday six hour Chillout special, with Chris Coco and Sally Rodgers from A Man Called Adam also hosting shows. Pete describes the Radio 2 show as 'fantastic, a dream come true for me - can't think of a better station to be doing it on'.
And so your eyes don't get jealous of your ears, Channel 4 broadcast a new Big Chill film in August. Transmission times coming soon - tune in and see if you spot yourself!
Written: 27th Jul, 06
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